When People Are Uncertain About What Is

It Is Now 14 Years Since I First Suggested That Organic Farming Might Have Some Benefits And Ought To Be Taken Seriously. I Shall Never Forget The Vehemence Of The Reaction.. Much Of It Coming From The Sort Of People Who Regard Agriculture As An Industrial Process, With Production As The Sole Yardstick Of Success.

Organic Farming Has Been Shown To Provide Major Benefits For Wildlife And The Wider Environment. The Best That Can Be Said About Genetically Engineered Crops Is That They Will Now Be Monitored To See How Much Damage They Cause.

I Think It's Something That Dawns On You With The Most Ghastly, Inexorable Sense. I Didn't Suddenly Wake Up In My Pram One Day And Say 'yippee, I - ', You Know. But I Think It Just Dawns On You, You Know, Slowly, That People Are Interested In One, And Slowly You Get The Idea That You Have A Certain Duty And Responsibility.

Why Can't We Have Those Curves And Arches That Express Feeling In Design? What Is Wrong With Them? Why Has Everything Got To Be Vertical, Straight, Unbending, Only At Right Angles - And Functional?

I Find Myself Born Into This Particular Position. I'm Determined To Make The Most Of It. And To Do Whatever I Can To Help. And I Hope I Leave Things Behind A Little Bit Better Than I Found Them.